Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contests between the British and Americans the British can hardly forget that some of their best runners will never break a tape, their best golfers never tee off, their best polo players never lift a mallet. The runners made their last sprint in the smoke of the Somme, and the polo players died putting their final ounce behind a bayonet. Australasians who watched America win at Auckland must have thought of Wilding, the giant who played so smashingly at Forest Hills the summer of 1914 and a few months later was gone at Gallipoli. Not far from a million British...
...safest thing for New York to do is to forget the crime wave idea, now that it has successfully aroused the slow-witted public. Its existence is not nearly so important as the fact that the police cannot handle what crime there is, which is plenty enough. Commissioner Enright has not denied the many charges of incompetence. If there has been favoritism or dishonesty in any form, this ought far more to be in the public mind than the "to be, or not to be" of a crime wave which may serve well as a means to reform...
...chiefly the construction of moderately priced homes, though all new houses would profit somewhat. This may or may not be the best solution, but there is nothing wrong with the City Club's endeavor to remind the people that in the grand hunt for prospective jailbirds they room to forget that what New York, in common with other large cities, needs is immediate action to relieve the housing shortage...
While the eleven deserves all praise for the perfect execution of these plays, we must not forget "Dick" Wigglesworth, whose crafty brain brought them to such perfection of accuracy and concealment. Harvard may always look for a victory as long as the "Haughton system" is carried out by such a redoubtable group of coaches...
...England has much to teach us in regard to the possibilities of individual instruction, either singly or in small groups, we must not forget that our lecture system gives us certain advantages which Oxford and Cambridge lack and which we should be very foolish to abandont. Our aim should be to retain the strong points of what we already have, and combine them in so far as possible with the benefits to be derived from the English system. The Alumni Bulletin...